Wild Card

Any unpredictable factor or unknown in a data set or series of domainsInformatics An alphanumeric keyboard character—e.g., asterisk—which can stand for any character, a wide range of characters, no character, or a question markSports medicine A playoff slot for a person or team that didn’t qualify for the playoffs during regular season

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